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permadrunk en · ADJ

Etymology

From perma- + drunk.

Meanings

  1. (informal, rare) Perpetually or habitually drunk; affected by alcoholism.
    • Agnes and Tobias, a married couple, bicker and joke about each other’s foibles. Agnes’s permadrunk sister, Claire, arrives, trailing barbs. Later, their daughter, Julia, shows up, having recently parachuted out of her fourth marriage. (Claire calls her a “quadruple amputee.”) 2014 November 20, Jesse Green, “Theater Review: A Delicate Balance, Still Necessary and Brilliant”, in Vulture:
    • My favorite instance of this kind of supposed failure comes in 2011, towards the tail end of this kind of complaint, in the madcap mess that is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, a sequel that doesn't want to be cheapened by using the number 2 in its title but nevertheless feels a lot like Keystone Kops plus demons and a perma-drunk Idris Elba, […] 2017, Evan Calder Williams, Shard Cinema, London: Repeater Books, →ISBN, page unknown:
    • That's because The Gang, as they think of themselves, is the most singularly self-absorbed, permadrunk, delusionally idiotic group of people ever to grace the small screen (and that includes Keeping Up With the Kardashians). 2014 June 9, Peter Rubin, “WIRED Summer Binge-Watching Guide: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia”, in Wired:

Forms

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most permadrunk Degree=Sup lexicographic
perma-drunk alternative lexicographic
more permadrunk Degree=Cmp lexicographic